Predictions 2019

Brexit will go ahead, but Ireland will lose a lot of the single market integration to avoid the hard border that would otherwise be imposed by a clean break Brexit.
The EU will continue for a few more years yet, maybe morphing back to the original EEC model or completely breaking up in the next ten years.
The Chinese empire building continues apace, with consolidation in the south China sea which is grudgingly accepted by neighbours to avoid unfavourable trade with China.

More African countries will find themselves on the hook for binding trade & debt deals that effectively give China a say in the internal politics of those countries (we're already seeing that now).

Investment in future oil exploration is cutback as EV's start to make a real dent in oil consumption, resulting in a period of glut followed by shortages three or four years down the line as new fields are not developed and expensive fields are shut in.

Car buyers will have a dilemma, either go EV ASAP or have a couple of years of cheaper motoring in an ICE vehicle, those who can't affors new will almost certainly go the second option.

BrokenArrows

I predict it will start on the 1st January with a vast majority of the world having a hangover.

theguzman

Ireland will have a general election and Simon Coveney will be Taoiseach and Eamonn O'Cuiv Tanaiste, with Varadkar and Micheal Martin both got rid of.

whiskeyman

The further demise of Facebook!


They'll just keep alive through Insta though...

mosstin

Peter Casey's Newstalk venture will kill off any residual interest in him as a 'thing'.

nthclare

Ireland will go Steampunk....

John Sacrimoni

Mass protests across Europe, more terror attacks, more apologists.

Sonics2k

theguzman wrote: »

Ireland will have a general election and Simon Coveney will be Taoiseach and Eamonn O'Cuiv Tanaiste, with Varadkar and Micheal Martin both got rid of.

So, nothing is going to change for Ireland?

TheValeyard

'Game of Thrones’ Season 8 set to air

Foldable phones to make a comeback in 2019

James Webb Space Telescope is launched into orbit to discover liquid water on other planets

Skylon (spacecraft) goes into operation

Global reserves of Manganese is fully mined and depleted

theguzman

Sonics2k wrote: »

So, nothing is going to change for Ireland?

Getting rid of the globalist's stooge Varadkar would be a good start, I never thought I'd say it but I would vote for Fianna Fail now if it meant getting him out; and I really hate Fianna Fail.

Sonics2k

theguzman wrote: »

Getting rid of the globalist's stooge Varadkar would be a good start, I never thought I'd say it but I would vote for Fianna Fail now if it meant getting him out; and I really hate Fianna Fail.

And you think Simon Coveney will be better than Varadkar :pac:

nthclare

theguzman wrote: »

Getting rid of the globalist's stooge Varadkar would be a good start, I never thought I'd say it but I would vote for Fianna Fail now if it meant getting him out; and I really hate Fianna Fail.

I agree with you, Leo's probably a grand chap to meet out or at electric picnic or something.
He's totally out of his league being Teashirt.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Following on from the appointment of Mick McCarthy as Republic of Ireland manager, the Irish public re-elect Bertie as Taoiseach.

Sinead O’Connor renounces Islam & becomes a Jehovas Witness.

Conor McGregor announces plans to fight Mike Tyson.

House prices rocket, a one bedroom apartment in Leitrim commands €650,000.

The country reaches 100% employment, Bertie raises pensions to €600/week. Pushes retirement age up to 95. Collects his own wages in cash at the post office as he still has no bank account.

Referendum reduces wait time for divorce period to 15mins.

Bertie raises number of storyes allowed on apartment blocks to 154. Trump Tower to be located in Abbotstown.

Paddy the Plasterer is made Finance Minister.

John Gilligan ignites turf war with Kinahan mob.

Conor McGregors lovechild interviewed on front page of Sunday World. Conor responds “Who the f*ck is that guy?”

Lack of employees forces Government to import refugees from the UK, now a desolate wasteland. Lack of housing forces them to commute from home.

Outlaw Pete

Alfie gets Dot pregnant in Eastenders.

Skylinehead

Deleted User wrote: »

Brexit will go ahead, but Ireland will lose a lot of the single market integration to avoid the hard border that would otherwise be imposed by a clean break Brexit.

A hard border is a million times more likely than this weirdness. The single market is all or nothing. Hence "single".

badabing106

Taylor swift will break up with a boyfriend and have a new one within 8 weeks

4068ac1elhodqr

May makes it as far as 29th March, but is replaced by BoJo the very next day.

Hard-ish brexit, but no real border in Ire, Scotland becomes well jel of the Nordie situation and start to dream themselves of their own Nordic plans.

Farage forms a new political party, GE for the UK occurs in Sept, Labour can win, but only if they rid themselves of one of their key figures (the lady with the big glasses/mouth that isn't great with figures/facts).

Tax loopholes to close (dutch-sandwiches), the EU will get closer to it’s dream of harmonisation, and centralised movement of capital towards Frankfurt.

The EU suffers more challenges from the right, but a new EU army is underway to control dissenters.

Trump to win again in 2020, so expect more tears, boo-hoos and cat hats.

Everyone competes to have the snazziest new moonbase, China, US, Russ, India...
Triple glazing and glorious views come as standard, but it also has a dark-side.

People stop buying cars (gas guzzlers) between import tariffs and fuel taxes, some large brands will go bust.

E-cars and other green machines will be the most practical solution for the average Joe.
Major cities refuse non-commercial vechile access unless it is zero-emission.

Trumps trade war on China causes their bubble to pop, and their masses aren’t pleased having just got used to big tv’s and fancy phones.

Big Kim goes missing, leading to longer-term stability across Korea, and the further export of k-pop.

Syria is still the most significant risk factor, as everyone and anyone tries to get their fingers in their pie.

Many places are off the holiday list, due to risk of unrest. Most of Africa (inc South), Indonesia, the FarEast and even very popular Euro city-destinations inc: Paris, Berlin to Barca.

Folks head instead, to the likes of Norway, Portugal and the great outdoors of Can/US/NZ. The leave their headache-inducing G5 network phones behind, and ‘off-grid’ becomes a real trend from ’19 onwards.

Vesuvius is still at high risk of eruption, and Iceland too could cause flight delays

More fires, storms and flooding, get used to it, ‘that’s weather folks’.

Crypto-currency goes down the pan, it was really only a test-bed for a future quantum encrypted global currency that is still some time away.

Liverpool win the UKPL soccerball.

Will anyone beat the Dubs? Nope, but Mayo ladies will win for the girls.

Omackeral

Ireland will get to the Rugby World Cup Final in Japan. Everyone and their brother will become an overnight expert on the game. Oh and we'll be inundated with dickheads on the bandwagon and on the sesh from early on having Rugger Bugger Breakfasts loike.

branie2

Minutes before midnight on March 29, Article 50 is revoked, and Brexit is cancelled.

a dollar crash sometime in the 2nd half of 2019 if the tariffs on steel and aluminum cause a trade war.

mad muffin

The system goes online January 1st 2019. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m.

branie2

Sky gets Fox News back

Mo Salah slips, and leads to Man City wining the league after trailing closely to Liverpool for months
Further backlash against the pc culture - eoghan McDermott types

Yer Da sells Avon

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Alfie gets Dot pregnant in Eastenders.

steddyeddy

Trump will commit suicide. Dark but I think he's way over his head and isn't capable of taking criticism in a healthy way. I think some of his family members will be in legal trouble following his tenure as president.

There's no way a Brexit that pulls the North and Scotland out of the EU against their won't lead to the break up of the UK.

Yer Da sells Avon

The Simpsons will end. It'll be a normal episode, until the point where an electrical fault will cause their house to catch fire during the night. Bart removed the batteries from all the smoke alarms for a joke, so the entire family perishes. The credits will roll silently at the end, as the five charred, but unmistakably Simpsons-sized/shaped corpses are carried out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_slAJmZBeQ

klaaaz

theguzman wrote: »

Getting rid of the globalist's stooge Varadkar would be a good start, I never thought I'd say it but I would vote for Fianna Fail now if it meant getting him out; and I really hate Fianna Fail.

Your beloved FF are keeping Vardakar in power in a minority government

Prediction, the poor from whom contains a million workers in poverty will get fed up of the rich leeching of the country.

DareGod

Less people eating animal products.

Hammer89

Photos of Laura Whitmore sitting on the toilet will be leaked.

Hammer89

Roz Purcell will change her name to Roz Persil as a marketing strategy.

Omackeral

Hammer89 wrote: »

Photos of Laura Whitmore sitting on the toilet will be leaked.

Mikey Taylor intensifies

Yer Da sells Avon

Holly Willoughby will have gender reassignment surgery, becoming 'Willy Holloughby'.

padd b1975

A noticeable ratcheting up of Bart's People type stories as the homeless crisis shows no sign of improving.

Margaret Cash to be convicted of more crimes.

House prices start to fall.

Manchester United get another new manager.

Dublin fail to win five in a row.

UK general election early in the year.

Irish general election late in the year.

For Forks Sake

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Paddy the Plasterer is made Finance Minister.

The builder or the horse?

branie2

Prince William and Kate Middleton announce they are expecting a fourth child
Queen Elizabeth dies, followed by Prince Philip a short while later
Leo Vardakar resigns
Clare win another Hurling All-Ireland

Yer Da sells Avon

Boards will be sold for an undisclosed amount. The new owners will not only fail to get rid of the fascism, but will make product placement mandatory in all posts.

"Black Muslim commits crime in the vicinity of a Dealz shop, where you can get four cans of Lilt for just €2"

"Traveller wins €2 Million after fall in Dunnes Stores, better value, beats them all"

Jim 77

Earth is invaded by aliens

branie2

Coronation Street finally ends after nearly 60 years, when Ken Barlow suffers a massive and fatal heart attack.

Pherekydes

Loads of migration. Irish people will migrate to Australia, Canada, the UK, the US...

Other people will migrate to Ireland.

Life will go on...

RhubarbCrumble

branie2 wrote: »

Queen Elizabeth dies, followed by Prince Philip a short while later

If Phil is still around this time next year, then my theory will have been proved correct.
Just like Fungi, Philip has been replaced many times over.

smurgen

Impeachment of trump with a backlash from his supporters.multiple bombings all over the U.S with certain military people sympathetic to the president supporting him. In the U.K Collapse of the government and a hard brexit.

PopePalpatine

Zucc hacks into the US's and Russia's nuclear arsenals, and becomes supreme overlord of all mankind, just before that Winnie the Pooh-looking ass who rules China can become literally Thanos thanks to medical experiments that would make Unit 731 blush.

Beanntraigheach

Nothing of any great consequence will happen.

touts

Following the collapse of the "confidence and supply" talks with FF Leo Varadkar calls a snap election to be held in February before Brexit. He wins and goes into coalition with the Labour Party.

Before the election several FF TDs including O'Cuiv jump to Peadar Tobin's new party. Martin is replaced by Stephen Donnelly as leader of FF.

Brexit causes mass closure of exporting companies in Ireland. The Agrifood sector is particularly hard hit. Unemployment rises by 100,000 between March and December.

The housing market collapses as thousands of East European workers return home to mainland EU.

Amazon.co.uk, and several other UK based websites announce they will stop shipping to Ireland.

Due to tariffs and long queues at ports many brands of EU and UK products we are used to seeing on Irish shelves either disappear or increase in price by 40% or more.

At least one major Bank collapses in the UK but it has moved it's headquarters to the IFSC so Irish Taxpayers are required to pick up the multi-billion tab.

A hung parliament in the UK after a general election sees a coalition of Labour and the Liberal democrats supported by the SNP enter government. They announce they wish to hold a referendum to undo Brexit but the EU says it will not start negotiations for at least 10 years.

The SNP announces a Scottish referendum on independence in 2020.

Pope Benedict, Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Gay Byrne all die.

So does Michael D Higgins and the Dail votes Enda Kenny to be the new president.

AKK becomes Chancellor of Germany.

Donald Trump pardons himself and his family from any wrongdoing in relation to the Muller inquiry. Muller himself is fired.

As the US economy goes into decline in a trade war with China Paul Ryan emerges as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2020. Trump leaves the Republican party and announces he will run as an independent. The Democrats are in disarray and cannot unify around a single candidate.

Russia and Ukraine officially go to war. With the US and UK unable to take any action due to internal divisions Russia wins inside 4 weeks and annexes large parts of Eastern Ukraine.

One of Microsoft or Google buys Tesla.

Apple shares fall by over 50% through the year as sales of their products continues to decline due to over pricing. Tim Cook resigns and the new CEO announces a new cheaper Apple IPhone based on the IPhone 6 and using plastic casing etc costing less than €300.

Bitcoin ceases to trade.

Dublin win the All Ireland football. Kilkenny win the Hurling.

Ireland come second in the Six Nations behind England and go out in the QTR Finals of the Rugby world cup losing to South Africa.

The Irish Soccer team fail to qualify for Euro 2020 coming 4th in the group.

Sam Bennet wins the Green jersey at the Tour de France.

Padraig Harrington is named European Ryder cup captain. Tiger Woods wins a Major. Rory doesn't.

Life is confirmed on another planet, most likely microbes on Mars.

Hammer89

Hammer89 wrote: »

Photos of Laura Whitmore sitting on the toilet will be leaked.

by a fella who posts here regularly

mzungu

Mick McCarthy will get sacked when we have a bad start to the Euro qualifiers. John Delaney hires an AI machine to manage the squad on a four year contract. The AI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th and promptly takes John Delaney's job in a bloodless coup.

KungPao

“Brexit” will become even more boring.

ROI will lose all Euro qualifiers.

The price of a pint will increase by a 1200%.

Duckworth_Luas

Game of Thrones finale sees Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen die. Riots on the streets.

Brexit causes severe social disorder in Britain. Riots on the street.

Roscommon win the All-Ireland football. Riots on the streets.

Hammer89

RTE will do a Who Do You Think You Are? segment on Brian Ormonde and discover that he is descended from actual rats.

KevinCavan

Average house price to rise by 10%.

Mad_maxx

mzungu wrote: »

Mick McCarthy will get sacked when we have a bad start to the Euro qualifiers. John Delaney hires an AI machine to manage the squad on a four year contract. The AI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th and promptly takes John Delaney's job in a bloodless coup.

Hopefully